Any NVidia card back to the 6600 (Plain ol' 6600) will work in SLi. And crossfire limits you to either the X850, X1800XL, X1800XT. In ATi's defense, they were hit with the news of SLi very swiftly and had to design Crossfire from the ground up, whereas NVidia acquired the technology from 3DFX 6 years ago when they bought them.
SLi was around years ago, I believe the first mag I read with cards in SLi was in 1998, but it flopped, there was no market back then, since most onboard cards could play most games.
Theres a lot more to it than that...
In comparrison, SLi is s</b>hit compared to to crossfire.
SLi is ONLY works when there is supporting drivers installed and only in games/appz where there is code specifically written to take advantage of the SLi mode.
Crossfire on the other hand, is ALWAYS there. As its hardware support, not software that it needs to work. The video cards bios connect to each other.
As for supported cards...u need 1 card that is crossfire ready...which has stemmed from the X800....than u can use ANY other card in conjunction with it, like an X850 non corssfire, X850PT, X850Pro, X800Pro, X800PT etc etc etc....
It's true, although, NVidia really does keep on top of the updates, 99% of all new games get drivers within a week.
SLi splits the screen horizontally and assigns one half to one card, and the other half to the other card. This is of course driver driven, but Crossfire is hardware rendered. The windows based Video card drivers do the job for Crossfire.
Crossfire can split the screen horizontally, or vertically, but for performance it uses supertiles which basically turns the rendered screen into a Checker board, with one video card rendering the "black" checkers and one screen rendering the "white" checkers. This allows super sampling (basically allows you to run 14x AA whereas most cards can only support 6X) and overall higher
Crossfire gets you closer to the "Double the framerate" goal, because it seems to be more efficient. But a master card is required (unlike SLi), and although costs are not much higher than SLi, they still need to come down a bit. I think crossfire is a superior technology don't get me wrong, but if you're looking for bang for your buck, You can't really beat two 6800GS's in SLi.
AMD 146BN 2.0G L2=1MB 90nm E4 Revision Retail Box !!!Coming Soon!!! (OSA146BNBOX)
$195 (make sure to find out that this CPU will work on the MB!!!)
Thats what im looking at so far. Add to that a new sataII drive, new VC and maybe a new case.....
As long as the CPU is a Socket 939 Opteron it will work in ANY Socket 939 board...ir may read it as a Athlon 64 though until u flash the bios so it can read the CPU ID strong properly, aside from that it will work flawlessly even in 6 month old 939 boards...
As long as the CPU is a Socket 939 Opteron it will work in ANY Socket 939 board...ir may read it as a Athlon 64 though until u flash the bios so it can read the CPU ID strong properly, aside from that it will work flawlessly even in 6 month old 939 boards...
-Jay
Was more of a note for the person who had to pick it up.. cut and paste
MB looks nice, a slew of features. I love the 8 sata connections, i will utilize those forsure
I'm only seeing 6 on your board.. maybe they have the wrong image up... but the Lanparty looks more juicey
MSI has a great rep too & the usb headers which is nice... Ihope its not a mistake to stray away from ASUS
Trust me, once you go DFI, and see their BIOS, you'll be like WTF
Heads up though rick, there are FOUR power recepticles on the DFI Lanparty. One 24 Pin, One 4 pin, one 4 pin molex, and one 4 pin (floppy style) so you'll need a lot of juice. But there's a reason why
I also find Asus bundles to be crap, No Raid drivers etc. It's a real pain in the ass when you have to go to a working computer, wait 1 hour on their slow website just to find the proper Raid drivers.
The DFI is complete, even has a bios chip removal tool for when you **** up the flashing.
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